You’re saying people with underdeveloped mental and social skills are somehow never analagous in any way at all to children? There are full grown neurotypical and clinically healthy adults that are irresponsible enough to be analagous to children, but a literal case of someone trusting an untrustworthy authority due to a lapse of critical thinking skills … bears no resembalance at all to child-like behavior, at all?

Wow. That’s kind of some ivory tower stuff right there.

Agreed, for sure.

But if Costco modified their in-store sample booth policy and had their associates start offering free samples of bleach to children - when kids start drinking bleach we wouldn’t blame the children; we wouldn’t blame the bleach; we’d be mad at Costco.

Counterpoint: it is NOT an unhealthy relationship. A relationship has more than one person in it. It might be considered an unhealthy behavior.

I don’t think the problem is solvable if we keep treating the Speak’n’spell like it’s participating in this.

Corporations are putting dangerous tools in the hands of vulnerable people. By pretending the tool is a person, we’re already playing their shell game.

But yes, the tool seems primed for enabling self-harm.